Hello! Would anyone have any ideas about how to artificially bisect a CouchDB cluster?
I am trying to bisect a 5-node dev cluster to induce a split-brain scenario for demonstration purposes, but I am having trouble blocking traffic between nodes because they use random ports to communicate and will switch ports if they detect one has become blocked. To start the cluster, I am using the dev/run script in the source for version 2.1.1: ```bash $ ./dev/run -n 5 --with-admin-party-please ``` This works fine. I then tried to block communication between each node's public (*5984) and private (*5986) ports, but nodes communicate with each other over random ports after finding each other using port 4369 such that blocking the public and private ports does not prevent nodes from communicating with each other. If I sniff TCP traffic to find those random ports and block traffic to and/or from them, the cluster reports instability and the affected node switches ports to get around the damage. This makes it difficult to write iptables rules to block this inter-node traffic. Anyone have any ideas? Thank you for your help :) Best regards, Diana
